Improved check-hook



" tt i `carolien THEOBALT, on SPRINGFIELD, MAssAcnUsnTrs.

Y Letters Patem ivo. 97,569, dated Beamte? 7, 1869.

IMPROVED annex-HOOK' The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the same.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE THEOBALT, of Springfield, Hampden county, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harness; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and clear description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

In the drawings` Figure I is a side view, and i .Figures II, III, and IV, detailviews of the same.

This invention consists in a peculiar'constrnction of the check-hook, whereby itis Amore 'steadily attached "to the saddle, and `prevents the cheek-rein from' getting ont of place by jolting or slipping oi the` hook.

In the drawing, Fig. I shows the hook A attached l to the saddle by means of the screw-bolt B, which passes through the saddle and enters the hook at G.

A horn-shaped projection, D, curves over the front of the saddle, and serves tokeep it firmly attached in lconjunction with the screw-bolt.

jecting downward from the hook.

Besides this projection D, is a similar one, E, pro- In putting in the check-rein, it is slipped edgcwise throughthe narrow space between the two projections D and E, and' then fitting broadly against the front of the hook, it is impossible for it to jolt or slip out when slacked.

This hook may be constructed as shown in Figs. H- and IV respectively, without the hook D or E, one of Witnesses:

J. B. GARDNER, D. M. -WELLs. 

